alt Hacker NewsAccording to the OpenASR Leaderboard [1], looks like Parakeet V2/V3 and Canary-Qwen (a Qwen finetune) handily beat Moonshine. All 3 models are open, but Parakeet is the smallest of the 3. I use Parakeet V3 with Handy and it works great locally for me.
[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard
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By the way, I've been using a Whisper model, specifically WhisperX, to do all my work, and for whatever reason I just simply was not familiar with the Handy app. I've now downloaded and used it, and what a great suggestion. Thank you for putting it here, along with the direct link to the leaderboard.
I can tell that this is now definitely going to be my go-to model and app on all my clients.
hmmm looks like assembyAI is still unbeatable here in terms of cost/performance unless im mistaken
edit: holy shit parakeet is good.... Moonshine impressive too and it is half the param
Now if only there was something just as quick as Parakeet v3 for TTS ! Then I can talk to codex all day long!!!
How much VRAM does parakeet take for you? For some reason it takes 4GB+ for me using the onyx version even though it’s 600M parameters
why V3 over V2 (assuming English only)?
Parakeet V3 is over twice the parameter count of Moonshine Medium (600m vs 245m), so it's not an apples to apples comparison.
I'm actually a little surprised they haven't added model size to that chart.